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Realistic Fiction
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen *	Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein *	Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King	Recovery Road by Blake Nelson
The List by Siobahn Vivian	Exposed by Kimberly Marcus	True Legend by Mike Lupica *	Endangered by Eliot Schrefer *

Mystery
Shelter by Harlan Coben *	The Night She Disappeared by April Henry *	The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall *	Burning Blue by Paul Griffin

Non-fiction
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick	Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan by Richard Bowers	Kids of Kabul by Deborah Ellis	Rescue Ink by Rescue Ink and Denise Flaim *

Science Fiction/Fantasy
Amped by Daniel H. Wilson *	Adaptation by Malinda Lo	Cinder by Marissa Meyer *	Legend by Marie Lu *
		Zombies and Vampires
Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater *	Every Day by David Levithan *	Team Human by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan	The Infects by Sean Beaudoin *

Other titles you may want to consider:
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It On The Mountain
Carroll, Jim. The Basketball Diaries
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage
Guest, Judith. Ordinary People
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple
Wells, Rebecca. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Wisel, Elie. Night
Wolff, Tobias. This Boy's Life

Honors Requirements
10th Grade (Honors)	Crime Fiction (Honors)	The Hero's Journey (Honors)	Post-Apocalyptic Lit (Honors)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway *	The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett *	The Aeneid by Virgil Translated by Robert Fitzgerald *	1984 by George Orwell *

Recommended
Sports Literature	Modern Short Story
Bleachers by John Grisham *	On Writing by Stephen King

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